Tony’s professor

Only Tony Stieritz’s archdiocesan Catholic Social Action office would see fit to invite a leftwing radical identified as one of “The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America” to lecture at a conference on the “family.” Dr. Mark Ensalaco, director of the University of Dayton’s Human Rights program, will address the theme “solidarity with the whole human family” at the Cords of Kindness, Ties of Love conference this Saturday, Feb. 2, in Dayton. Ensalaco was included in David Horowitz’s 2007 book The Professors for his defenses of Latin American communists and his apologies for Islamist terrorism. He was also the focus of a 2005 expose by Mr. Horowitz’s FrontPageMag.com website.

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Just curious, what if one “of the issues that assault families at home and around the world” is a church bureaucracy that promotes peace-n-justice by sitting around talking about peace-n-justice while treating personal and communal piety as some kind of cancer?

Not holding my breath on this one. It’s been the unstated policy of the AOC for it to take more than just being a liberal hack to get kicked off its speaker circuit. No one should spend time listening to this profs worldview, let alone Church conference-goers but unless you got something where he said he supports women ordination, doesn’t believe in the Atonment, Resurrection, etc, supports so-called “gay marriage” I don’t think any action will be taken. If Bellarmine Chapel is able to get away with half of their crap, this one I think this will unfortunately go forward. In theory, a liberal hack can be a good Catholic and maintain fidelity to its teachings, but in practice that is usually not the case. But, I think vrf hit the spot: an over-emphasis on peace-n-justice by sitting around talking about peace-n-justice while treating personal and communal piety as some kind of cancer.
After this Prez, social justice as it traditionally has been understood, has lost all credibility. We must understand social justice in a new, Catholic light and not the same old crap Dr. Ensalaco is peddling. Remember, the greatest attack on the family is abortion, and the greatest social justice cause is the ending of all abortion. Will conference-goers here this when peace-n-justice is discussed at this “family” conference?

Point taken, but he’s a little more than a liberal hack. Over the past twenty years, Ensalaco hasn’t met a terrorist or unrepentant Marxist-Leninist, i.e., violent communist, he couldn’t defend. This is par for the course with Stieritz and his CSA junta. And let me say this again: it is disgraceful for Archbishop Schnurr to keep in positions of authority those who bring shame and scandal to the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

The Office of the Archbishop received your email. Archbishop Schnurr is not in the office today. The Archdiocese of Cincinnati followed our policies regarding speakers and received a letter of good standing for Dr. Encalaco. He is permitted to speak at the conference.